In addition to its usual earthquakes, tsunami, eruptions, storms, floods and fallout, Japan has also suffered an unusually damaging tornado, devastating the city of Tsukuba.

The tornado struck the city of Tsukuba in Ibaraki prefecture, resulting in the death of a 14-year-old boy and injuring at least 40 residents.

The tornado also damaged or destroyed some 780 buildings, along with countless vehicles, as well as leaving large parts of the prefecture without power.

The Japan Meterological Agency has recorded an average of 13 tornadoes a year in Japan over the last few decades (compared to 1,000 a year in the US), but their size and intensity is usually only a fraction of those seen in North America, and they rarely strike cities.

It’s as if god, in a fit of disgust, has seen fit to snuff out all of Japan. Will their torment never end? I mean, I know they can be bizarre…and perverted…and judgmental…and old-fashioned…and xenophobic, but…

Its weird probably due to the effects of global warming, you never would see a water spout off shore in Hawaii (tornado at sea). But these days, in recent years its been happening more frequently. Its just a matter of time till we have a real tornado happen on land.

Wow, a tornado now reducing a city to ruin? SHIT! Just how much more suffering does Japan need to go through with these crazy ass natural disasters!? And I hope to God in the future that the next one doesn’t end up to be a volcano! Not to jinx anything.

The first thing I saw on tv when I got to Japan was footage of the tornado. It looked dinky in the video to the eyes of any American used to looking at our King sized tornadoes, especially the recent ones. Ours, however, tend to hit farms in BFE rather than crowded city centers, and I should hope by now midwestern states have improved their building codes a tad to deal with tornadoes the way we had in Florida to do with hurricanes. This shows it’s all about location, and there’s not a lot of empty space in Japan to take up tornadoes.

Seems like natural disasters are getting worse, though. Must be all the lolicons.

What if the tornado sent by chinese to destroy japan after chinese copy so much japanese stuff so all of japanese original stuff would be destroyed and chinese fake counterfeit stuff would become the real stuff <('o'<)
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With all those damage and huge wrecks, I’m surprised only one died (RIP to that kid and condolence to his family) and at least 40 people (that’s still a huge number though) injured. For a nation which people tend to call and claim getting weaker and softer nowadays, I have to say they’re still tough when it comes to this kind of misfortune, both during and after the disaster.

That first pic is pretty amazing. I’m surprised the next one wasn’t from an airborne perspective. Welcome to the American Midwest, Japan. Though they don’t have tsunamis, being a thousand miles from the ocean, and earthquakes are pretty rare and mild for them, so.

10 per year and this one just happened to smash a city. That’s some pretty crappy luck there. My state averages 30 a year, and rarely gets any serious damage. Though the last few years have been horrible. Over 100 in 2010 hit the state.

@alternative kyon You don’t read/watch Japanese news, do you? Even after the big earthquake they’ve been having disaster after disaster. I’m assuming you’re not a U.S. citizen, because the U.S. is MUCH BIGGER than Japan, so when we get Tornadoes it usually hits isolated/rural areas with not so much devastation, unlike a smaller area in Japan.

@Anon 09:48 07/05/2012 : I’m Vietnamese, VietNam still take damage untill now cause of Dioxin that American drop on us.
regardless, we don’t hold grude against American.
Count the death, American nuclears make take more Damage to Japan than pearl harbor.
And I know some American friends, none of them hate Japan, people always treasure the present and the future not the past.
SO JUST WHO THE HELL ARE YOU THAT ALWAYS BRING THAT UP ? ARE JAPAN DO SOMETHING TO YOU ? ARE YOU EVEN LIVE THAT LONG TO KNOW THE PEARL HARBOR ? JUST SHUT UP ALREADY YOU MOTHER FUCKING BASTARD!

Just if you are American should shut up since their country is ravaged by tornadoes and hurricanes all the time ..
In countries like USA probably the weather will get worse and meanwhile do not worry about global warming and not taken into account by your government..
The way things are in JP probably they will start designing bunkers again …

I’d like to point out that even the people who would like fight global warming in the US are cock blocked by the retarded political system and being out fought by corporations and their unlimited ad funding.

as a christian american, i can say with some confidence that this IS divine retribution for the japanese hedonistic, godless and – to be brutally honest – disgusting pornographic lifestyle. you keep pushing his buttons with the way you live your lives and he WILL punish you at some point. As a poster above has already stated, you don’t attack a country like they did in peral harbour and torture prisoners like they did and expect to carry on life without god eventually haveing enough of your evil lifestyle. this is yet another sign of end days, like many others around the world and every one of you fools who reject jesus christ are in for one seriously horrible time soon. I CAN say that with a smile on my face, because i am already saved and i know better than you 🙂

@ Anon 2035
“Let ye WITHOUT sin cast the first stone”
As a good christian American, can you guess what sin you are guilty of?? I think you need some more savin’, buddy. As a good christian from Texas, that has been through a few twisters. I wish the people of Japan good luck, on this recent event.

Insanely stupid, considering all the damage tornadoes, drought, hurricanes and oil spills have done to christian majority areas of the U.S. in recent months and years. God really hates you two-faced lying hypocrite scum, huh?

Only idiots would go on about Pearl Harbor these days. The U.S. already paid them back for that 100-fold, then went on to commit their own atrocities in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan.

I’m glad you let us know that you are American. See this is why Christians have a bad impression and reputation, it’s because of egoistic, selfish, discriminate, and self-righteous people like you. I am a Filipino Christian and I sir say, fuck you. You are no true Christian if you talk about others like that. Love God and love thy neighbor as you love your god.

Shouldn’t you be reading a bible rather than preach here btw? You’re no priest so gtfo.

The fact that you go to sankaku is already enough for you not to be saved. I’ll see you in hell too.

Amusing how a Filipino has to tell you how to love others, considering how many the US slaughtered while denying their independence in the 1900’s. The US persecutes many people, like the Marshallese nuclear tests, Japanese internment camps, a variety of lynchings, etc. The US just happens to be the strongest nation, and can cover its tracks.